Vulnerability · Published Mar 4, 2025 · Assigned by VulDB
CVE-2025-1893Open5GS AMF gmm-sm.c gmm_state_authentication denial of service
Medium 4.3
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Open5GS. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 59% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
A vulnerability was found in Open5GS up to 2.7.2. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function gmm_state_authentication of the file src/amf/gmm-sm.c of the component AMF. The manipulation leads to denial of service. The attack can be launched remotely. This vulnerability allows a single UE to crash the AMF, resulting in the complete loss of mobility and session management services and causing a network-wide outage. All registered UEs will lose connectivity, and new registrations will be blocked until the AMF is restarted, leading to a high availability impact. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The patch is named e31e9965f00d9c744a7f728497cb4f3e97744ee8. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-404 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
References
- VDB-298411 | Open5GS AMF gmm-sm.c gmm_state_authentication denial of service vdb-entry, technical-description
- VDB-298411 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA) signature, permissions-required
- Submit #505952 | Open5GS v2.7.2 Denial of Service third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs/issues/3707 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs/issues/3707#issuecomment-2639620554 issue-tracking
- https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs/issues/3707#issue-2833194192 exploit, issue-tracking
- https://github.com/open5gs/open5gs/commit/e31e9965f00d9c744a7f728497cb4f3e97744ee8 patch